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2U3 ews VOL 4 No 195 OBERLIN OHIO WEDNESDAY NOV 25 1863 100 PER ANNUM Sarnl Brovrn Lorain County N THE LORAIN COUNTY NEWS PUBLISHED AT OBEKLIN OHIO BY V A SHANKLAND Teruia of Subscription One Year Six Months Three Months 1 00 50 25 BUSINESS DIRECTORY V A illUKKIiAIND Book and Job Hrinterand Publisher Niws Bulllins Oberlin For terms Sic see ader llsemeiton fourth page itiOINUOE IlOtJSE Corner of Main mid ColIStrectsOberlin LW Coot Proprietor Boardiugby the day orweek COMMERCIAL INSTITUTE Second Floor Now Building Oberlin O Soe Aderliseinent SS CALKlXbPrincipally E W A DKAKK Teachers Snencerlan practical and ornamen tal penmanship Commercial Chirographic institute Obernnu HWUElt JOUNSOiV M Physician and Surgeon East College Stet Cjjr Life and Fire Insurance Agent ROBERTS BAILEY Attorneys and Counsellors at Law Office over rioveys store Oberlin O D K Kobirts O BiliyJr SAJHEL PiJlUUU Banker Broker and Pension Agent 15 College Place Oberlin B PRENTISS Justice of the Pence Back Pay Bounty Pension Collectingandlnsuranco Agent iiud door South of Hoveys Store Oberlin O I MJOHN SON CO Dealers in Dry Goods Groceriei Hardware Crockery Produce etc Nol MerchantsixhanoMain St Oberlin Ohio See Adv KINNEY REAMER Dealersin Dry Goods Groceries Crockery Hardware etc Obeitn Ohio See Adv IllgTitADS Dealer in Ready made 01thing Foreign and Domestic Drv Goods Cloths CassimeresMillinery Goods Furs Yankee Notions c Sic See Advertisement UJ iOODRACII Dealer in Books Stationery Pictures Picture Frames Wall Paper dec Corner MainandCollege Streets Oberlin O J M FITCH Bookseller and Stationer and Dealer in Picures Picture Frames Wall Paper and a direat variety of goods suitable to his trade Oberlin Ohio ACPLATT Photographist Third Story corner of Main and College Sts Oberlin ri L HENRY Dealerln Drugs Medicines C Oberlin O See Advertisement H A BUNCE Dealerln Drugs Medicines Sio Oberlin O See Advertisement R II BUlCJIi Druggist Grocer Main St Oberlin O ilJr Physicians prescriptions carefullycompounded J F SlDD ALL iemist Union Block Oberlin Ohio FRANK HENDRY Dealer iu Clocks Watches Jewelry Musical liJtruinents suvr vvaroblW tinuj Fancy China Ware c Union Block Oberlin O See advertisement c cuimiss Dealerin Clocks Watches Jewelry Silver Ware Spectacles and Fancy Goods Oberlin WM HOVEY Dealer iu Groceries Flour ProvisionsHardware ore Commercial Block Oberlin J O UAKPENTKK Grocer Conleeliouor Dealer in Provisions Flour Feodoicocc No lUniou Block Oberlin Kfclit ilfcK Flour Merchant and Dealerin Grocoriesand i nlruliH Uook frOVLSIOUS who uuui s tore JOHN BRICE Commission Merchant Tailor and Practical Cuilir Well made Clothing always on nann WEED S BECKWITH Stoves Tin Shoot Iron and Hardware Main Street Oberlin ICO VI K Sc HANCOCK Manufacturers Dealers iu Lailiesand Gents Boots and Shoes ISO I union muv WM BAILEY rim Runts Shoos and Rubbers Custom Work made to order SurUi Main St Oberlin P R TOBIN Hadji and Harness Maker and Dealer in Triikj Valises oarput IV Soain Mam street Oberlin iro liorse See advertisement of the big J AS K tlLEV Harnesses Saildles Trunks CarpetBagsRub b e rClotliiugHullaio J I UVlKlill Meat Market Fresh and Salt Muats Fish Src Cash for Hides and Pelts Main Street Oberlin ISAAC PENFIELD wuonl Made and Repaired andBlacksinilhrig to ordercor Main and Water sis Oberlin U II PAVEL seiMii Keener Has constantly T 1 tt rsnaand Carriages All orders 7 n rMniTttlv attended to O mc Bunding Main Street Oberlin Liver and Boarding Stable A Nol Hore and P tn letEast Cnlloge St Oberlin e BEDORTHA Maker nnd dealer iu Furniture Readymade Coffins c South vlain treet ononni H EVANS BROTHER Genera Undertakers and Cabiuet Makersand Dealers In Furniture Oberlin WATER MAN PEEK Mniinufacturcrs of Doors Sash Blinds and Work and Builders Oberlin Pinuns and Shinirlo Mill 4awing donolo or or Siuth Main i iiixirnn oiioitt Book Bindor over Ells Rore Collefre Street briin All kinds of Biuuine done well and Ob cbeap A Voluntary SY E W EMERSON In an age of fops and toys Wanting wisdom void of right Who shall nerve heroic boys To hazard all in Freedoms fight Break sharply off tbeir jolly games Foraake their comraoes guy And quit proud homes and youthful dames For famine toil and fray Yet on I he nimble air benign Speed nimbler messages That waft the breath of grace divine To hearts io sloth and ease So nigh is grandeur to our dust So near is God to man When duty whispers low 77wu must The youth replies I can Before the Rain We knew it would rain for all the morn A spirit on slender ropes of mist Was lowering its golden buckets down Into the rapory amethyst Of marshes and swamps and dismal feus Scooping the dew that lay in the flowers Dipping the jewels out of the sea To sprinkle them oter the land in showers We knew it would rain for the poplars bhowed The white of their leaves the amber grain Shrunk in the wind and the lightning now Is tangled in tremulous skeins of rain T B Atdrich The Last Appeal BY H JiC KIMBALL The room is swept nnd garnished for thy sake The table spread with Loves mostliberal cheer The fire is blazing brightly on the hearth faun lingers yet to give the welcome here When will thou come Daily I weave the airy web of hope r rail as the spider swrought with beads of dew That like Penelopes each night undone ach morn in patience 1 begin anew When wilt thou come Not yet Tomorrow Faith will take her flight The fire die out the banquet disappear Forever will these fingers drop the web And only desolttion wait thee here O come today Some Facts about the Ministry The following sentences in a letter addressed by Dr J G Holland to a mechanic who was in the habit ot absenting himself from public church services are worth pondering One great reason why you should go to church on Sabbath is that you need intellectualnourishment and stimulous which you can only get there I suppose that you do not often consider the fact that the greatest amount of genuine think ing in the world is done Dy preacn ers I suppose you may never have reflected that amidst all this din of business and clashing of variousinterests in the midst of the clamors and horrors of war the universal pursuit of amusements and thevanities and inanities of fashion and the indulgence of multitudinous vices there is a class of selfdenying men of the best education and the best talents and habits who in theirjuiet rooms are thinking and writing upon the noblest themes which can engage any mind Among these men may be found the finest minds which the age knows the most splendid specimens of intellectual power that the world contains The bright consumate flower of our American collegesystem is the American ministry imong these men are many who are slow stupid if you insist on it but there is not oue in one thousand of them who does not know more than you You can learn something of them all while some possess more brains and more availableintellectual power than you and all your rela tions combined i ten you mat n you suppose the American pulpit to be contemptible you are very much mistaken You have staid away from it teu years During all these ten years 1 have attended its weekly ministrations and I have a better right to speak of it than you have because 1 know more ubout it 1 toll you that I have received during ten years more intellectualnourishment and stimulus from the pulpit than from all other sourcescombined yet my every day pursuits are literary while yours are not Censure It is folly for aneminent man to think of escapingcensure and a weakness to be effected with it All the illustrious persons of antiquity and indeed of every acre in the world have passed through this fierv persecution rpi dPpnc against re lnere IS no QCiense aaiurib it of concomitant to greatness as sat ires and invectives were an essentia part of a Roman triumph Addison The Canada Thistle A troublesome plant is theCanada Thistle Cirsium arvense which is perhaps the worst weed with which the farmer has to contend It dif fers from the common thistle in be ing a perennial besides its strong roots it throws out into the soilnumerous strong rootstocks or under ground branches and multiplies very much in the way described tor the couchgrass in the last numberHunts mug plough or cultivator tnrough a patch of it instead of destroying it only breaks up these rootstocks and they become many separate plants This plant has two separate modes ot propagation ihe one is by its seeds which are readily borne by the wind from place to place and the other is by its underground stems which from a partial warfare against them only flourish andmultiply When one Canada thistle ap pears upon the tarm the war must begin It is modest in its hrst ap pearance presenting but a small tuft of prickly leaves often hidden by the grass but it must be extermina ted at once If let alone the root stock extends itself for a long dis tance in all directions and branches are thrown up to the surface These are apparently winterkilled but the returning summer shows that this is ot the case they are only killed down to the ground and as soon as favorable weather comes theirprickly stems arise from the subterranean buds and stand up in bristly defiance to the cultivator Wherever a Ca nadian thistle appears cut it down We have but little belief in specific applications to weeds but we have known these and other thistles to be destroyed by cutting as soon as they appeared and applying salt to the portion remaining in the ground Whether the first year s attempt at exterminating this pest is successful or not it is a duty that each farmer owes not only to himself but to his neighbors to prevent dissemination let no plant upon the premises flow er much less perfect its seeds Pa tience and frequent cutting as last as it appears above the surface will in time destroy it The legislature ot Michigan has recently passed a law requiringevery person to cut from his land and the adjoining highways the Canada thistles as often as may be necessary to prevent them from going to seed under a penalty ot ten dollars tor neglect In case the owners of the land should fail to cut the thistles after proper notice the overseers and commissioners ot highways ot the towns are empowered to destroy them and add the expense of doing so to the tax levy If a similar law could be carried out in every state we should hear but little of the Canada thistle American Agriculturist The Tyranny of Children We believe in children that is we believy that they are very impor tant members ot societv because sometime in the future they are to be men and women and will have to manage the world if it is managed at all But we do not believe in being tyrannized over by children and are not willing to submit to it witnout entering a protest If we have got to be ruled with a rod of iron we want to have that rod held by strong er hands than ours and then the world will applaud our heroism if we venture upon resistance Butletany one intimate to his most intimate friend that said friends child is at times a trifle troublesome and now and then a little exacting andunreasonable in its orders and demands and the indignant parent thinks him au unnatural monster who never tasted the milk of human kindness and consequently is a fit associate for only barbarians and cannibals But be this as it may it is a solemn and painful fact to many of us that children arc great tyrants and we believe that a great part of thistyranny could be avoided if parents would use a little thought and rely more upon the dictates of judgment and common sense than upon the impulses of exuberant feeling But when a parent helps the child totyrannize over everybody with whom it comes in contact and teaches it in fact so to do it is natural that by andDy tne cuua wm love tne exer cise of power so well as to domineer over those of his own household as well as the outside world The fault primarily is with the parent and there the remedy mustcommence A good many parents seem tosuppose that of all the descendants of Adam the one that nestles in their inns is by all means the fairest wi sest and best With that opinion we will not quarrel so far as they are concerned but they must not sup pose that everybody will agree with them Let a person visit a hundred homes each of which rejoices in an mfant and in ninetynine of them he will no sooner have settled into i comfortable chair than one of the ond parents will present before him x bundle of dry goods from one end of which he will hear vigorous inar dculate sounds Said bundle is held up triumphantly before the caller and while the miniature face iswrinkled and distorted on account of real or imaginary pains and while the eyes are closed and the fists arebusily pummeling what represents a nose he is expected to break cut inrapturous exclamations as to the beauty of the child tell which of itsancestors it resembles point out theexpressiveness of its various features give it his watch and pocket knife as playthings and after a half hour of the direst agony declare that such a child never before existed andprobably never will again Let these operations be repeated at everycalling place and a man naturally gets disgusted with children and begins to look at them as necessary evils and nothing more If parents would just take the trouble to think that save to parental eyes all infants look alike and that their callers would prefer some other relaxation andentertainment than hearing children cry or being told their mostremarkable points they would relieve outsiders of a great deal of serious trouble and make the world much pleasanter for those who have had no personal experience with juvenile humanity Moreover when children get out of swaddling clothes it is not really necessary that they shoud rule the world They are no better for seeing and tormenting everyvisitor they are no more amiable for smashing all the mirrors and tearing up all the books that the houseaffords Of course they wanteverything they see and they are not to blame for exercising a feeling which is innate and cannot be helped And yet the parent will deny the child no gratification however unreasonable it may be however injurious to the child or however inconvenient to a whole family visitors included If discipline be so fine a thing pray do not deny your children some of its benefits if it is right and best that men should hardly ever enjoy what they most desire then why letyourselves and your friends be tyrannized over for the gratification of an un reasonable whim Children require firm and careful training and it is a mistakenKindness that allows them to lord it over everybody with whom they come in contact They enjoy it doubtless for the time but they pay a severe penalty for the gratification after wards when they find that they cannot control themselves because they have never been controlled that they have no selfdenial be cause nothing has ever been denied them that they canBOt exercise rea son because in childhood they were not treated reasonably tchildren be kept in the nursery until their swaddling clothes be removed let them be taught as soon asinstinct develops into reason that the world revolves upon its axis for oth ers tuan tliemseives let mom ue taught that personal comfort is as dear to others as to themselves let them be taught to obey all parental commands with an unquestioning faith let them learn to respect age and merit wherever they meet it let them be taught that life is a reality and not a playground that they cannot obtain all they wish for but must do without many a coveted blessing let this be clone and the world will be pleasanter for us all and the helplessness of childhood will always be assisted the sorrows sympathized with and the virtuesappreciated Springfield Republican A Brave Boy When I was a boy I lived among the Green Mountains of Vermont in winter making snow forts and sliding down the steep hills and in summer and autumn wandering over jthe mountains after flowers or nuts or catching the beautiful trout from the brooks But my brother in Wisconsin wrote for me to come to him and I went Our house was on what was then called BaxtersPrairie The prairie was covered with flowers and the many clear lakes around abounded in fish and ducks but our principal food was hoe cake and salt pork One of our neighbors had had no meat for some time and getting out of powder they had no game So one day they sent up their oldest sod a boy about ten years old for a piece ot pork As he was carrying it homewards and going through a piece of woods by Silver Lake he heard a rustling of the leaves in a thicket by the roadside He stopped and listened all was still Again he pushed forward again the leaves rustled behind him and he thought he heard a stealthy step Again he stopped everything was still except the gentle dash of the waves upon the pebbly beach and the rapid beating of his own heart He dreaded to go forward and he dared not stay for he saw Dight was approaching when the woods always echoed with the sound of thehungry wolf and the savage bear and the stealthy catamount came out from their dens So picking up a club he again started homeward Again came the stealthy step behind him nearer and neare until he saw a gaunt and savage wolf creeping after him and as he hurried on still clinging to his meat the wolf was coming nearer and nearer and and he might at any moment spring upon him Still the boy though he trembled in every limb did not lose hispresence of mind He Temenbered haying heard his father say that if any one faced a wild animal and looked it square in the eye it would uot dare to attack him He turned round faced the hungry wolf and commenced walking backwardstoward his home still a long mile and a half away As the woods grew darker the wolf tame nearer show ing his white teeth with the hair bristling upon his back The courageous boy knew that if he gave up his piece ot pork he was safe and could run home unmolested but he knew that there were hungry ones at home awaiting his return So backwards he went step by step As the wolf came near he hit him sauare upon his head with a stone when with an angry yelp the wolf sprang into the thicket and set up ft long and dismal howl J he boylistened to hear if there were anyanswering howls ad hearing none took courage but soon the savage beast maddened with hunger came at him asrain With his club he gave him a welldirected blow be tween the eyes which sent him howl insr back again into the thicket Attin and again was the contest renewed Many times did thesavage animal make a spring at the lad and many times did the brave boy beat him off until at last he came near the los cabin of his parents when the disappointed wolf with a long and wailing sound dashed away into the woods TrembKng with ex citement and wet with perspiration the boy dropped the meat upon the floor crying Mother Ive got it and fellexhausted at his mothers feet Microscopic Writing At the London internationalexhibition 1862 a machine for theelocution of microscopic writing was exhibited by a Mr Peters which has enabled the Lord s Prayer to be written iD the 3E6T00Uh of a square inch a space like a minute dot The English Bible contains 3566 480 letters the Lords Prayer endin with deliver us from evil 223 letters so that the Bible is15992 times longer than the prayer T and if we employ round numbers we may say it could be written in160i0 times the space occupied by the prayer or in less than thetwentysecond part of a square inch In other words the whole Bible might be written twenrytwo times in one square inch This wonderfully Bii ln wiirinrr in fOonrlv lprviVilfl wllpn nlnrwl nndora srood microscode In using the machine the operator writes with a pencil attatched to one end of a long leer whatever marks he makes on a piece of paper areinfinitcssimally reduced in corresponding motions by which a glass plate is moved over a minute diamond point By means of a geometric chuck beautiful geometric designs may be engraved on a similar scale ofminuteness Wells b Annual Odds and Ends If negroes are as good as white people why did the Creator not make them alike Ohio Crisis We dont think that negroes are as good as white people but if women are as good as men why didnt theCreator make them alike f Louisville Journal There are but two ways which lead to great aims and achievements energy and perseverance Ener j i is a rare gut ic provoKesopposition hatred and reaction But perseverance lies within the reach of everv one its nower increases with its progress and it is but rarely that it misses its aim EiETHLT AND IIATXITLT INTEREST Ben Adam had a golden coin one day Which he put out to interest with a Jew Year after year awaiting him it lay u tun the doubled com two pieces grew And these two four bo on till people said How rich Ben Adam is and bowed the servile head Ben Selim had a golden coin that day Which to a stranger asking alma lis gave Who went rejoicing n his unknown way Ben Selim died too poor to own a grave But when hie aoul reached heavea angels with pride Showed him the wealth to which his coin had in ultiplied When James T Brady the celebrated lawyer of New York first opened a lawyers office he took a basement room which had previously been occupied by a cobbler He was somewhat annoyed by theprevious occupants callers and irritated by the fact that he had few of his own One day an Irishman entered The coblers gone I see he said I should think he had tartlyresponded Brady u And what do ye sell he asked looking at thesolitary table and a few law books 1 Blockheads responded Brady Be gorra said the Irishman ye must be doing a mighty finebusiness ye haint got but one left The following extract from an oration by Demosthenes is in circu lation as applicable tc certain con temporary contractorsBehold the despicable creatures raised all at once from dirt to opulence from the lowest obscurity to the high est honors Have not some of these upstarts built private houses and seats vying with the most gumptious of our public palaces And how have their fortunes and their power increased but as the commonwealth has been ruined and impoverished What is the difference between a Roman Catholic Archbishop and a donkey asked a young officerdining with Archbishop Whately Hereplied because one wears his cross before and the other behind And what asked Whately is the difference betweeu an aiddecamp and a donkey I cannot tell said the officer Neitner can I said the Archbishop A captain of a vessel loading coals went into a merchantscounting house and requested the loan of a rake The merchant lookingtowards his clerks replied I have a number of them but none Ibelieve wish to be hauled over the coals Is that the tune the old cow died of asked an Englishman nettled at the industry with which a New Englander whistled Yankee Doodle No beef replied Jonathan that ares the tune the old Bull died of Overwork The majority of the fatal diseases arising iroin overwork are nowdiscovered Give a human beiDgoverwork and deficient food and he is the victim of diarrhoea anddysentery Give him overwork and bid air and bad food and he is thevictim of typhus Give him overwork and bad air and he is the victim of consumption Give him overmental work with whatever air andwhatever food and he is the victim of brain disease and of one or other of its sequences iusanitv paralvsis i j i diabetes premature death in anv case death by suicide notunfrequently Give him overwork purelyphysical with air with food and thelaboring heart trying to keep upagainst its weariness succumbs and so the overworked smith boatman or woodheaver falls suddenly not more honored than the prizefighter of today or the fleet slave andgladiator of a past and more barbarous age Dr Richard iiua iproach out obscurity ub nuu

2U3 ews VOL 4 No 195 OBERLIN OHIO WEDNESDAY NOV 25 1863 100 PER ANNUM Sarnl Brovrn Lorain County N THE LORAIN COUNTY NEWS PUBLISHED AT OBEKLIN OHIO BY V A SHANKLAND Teruia of Subscription One Year Six Months Three Months 1 00 50 25 BUSINESS DIRECTORY V A illUKKIiAIND Book and Job Hrinterand Publisher Niws Bulllins Oberlin For terms Sic see ader llsemeiton fourth page itiOINUOE IlOtJSE Corner of Main mid ColIStrectsOberlin LW Coot Proprietor Boardiugby the day orweek COMMERCIAL INSTITUTE Second Floor Now Building Oberlin O Soe Aderliseinent SS CALKlXbPrincipally E W A DKAKK Teachers Snencerlan practical and ornamen tal penmanship Commercial Chirographic institute Obernnu HWUElt JOUNSOiV M Physician and Surgeon East College Stet Cjjr Life and Fire Insurance Agent ROBERTS BAILEY Attorneys and Counsellors at Law Office over rioveys store Oberlin O D K Kobirts O BiliyJr SAJHEL PiJlUUU Banker Broker and Pension Agent 15 College Place Oberlin B PRENTISS Justice of the Pence Back Pay Bounty Pension Collectingandlnsuranco Agent iiud door South of Hoveys Store Oberlin O I MJOHN SON CO Dealers in Dry Goods Groceriei Hardware Crockery Produce etc Nol MerchantsixhanoMain St Oberlin Ohio See Adv KINNEY REAMER Dealersin Dry Goods Groceries Crockery Hardware etc Obeitn Ohio See Adv IllgTitADS Dealer in Ready made 01thing Foreign and Domestic Drv Goods Cloths CassimeresMillinery Goods Furs Yankee Notions c Sic See Advertisement UJ iOODRACII Dealer in Books Stationery Pictures Picture Frames Wall Paper dec Corner MainandCollege Streets Oberlin O J M FITCH Bookseller and Stationer and Dealer in Picures Picture Frames Wall Paper and a direat variety of goods suitable to his trade Oberlin Ohio ACPLATT Photographist Third Story corner of Main and College Sts Oberlin ri L HENRY Dealerln Drugs Medicines C Oberlin O See Advertisement H A BUNCE Dealerln Drugs Medicines Sio Oberlin O See Advertisement R II BUlCJIi Druggist Grocer Main St Oberlin O ilJr Physicians prescriptions carefullycompounded J F SlDD ALL iemist Union Block Oberlin Ohio FRANK HENDRY Dealer iu Clocks Watches Jewelry Musical liJtruinents suvr vvaroblW tinuj Fancy China Ware c Union Block Oberlin O See advertisement c cuimiss Dealerin Clocks Watches Jewelry Silver Ware Spectacles and Fancy Goods Oberlin WM HOVEY Dealer iu Groceries Flour ProvisionsHardware ore Commercial Block Oberlin J O UAKPENTKK Grocer Conleeliouor Dealer in Provisions Flour Feodoicocc No lUniou Block Oberlin Kfclit ilfcK Flour Merchant and Dealerin Grocoriesand i nlruliH Uook frOVLSIOUS who uuui s tore JOHN BRICE Commission Merchant Tailor and Practical Cuilir Well made Clothing always on nann WEED S BECKWITH Stoves Tin Shoot Iron and Hardware Main Street Oberlin ICO VI K Sc HANCOCK Manufacturers Dealers iu Lailiesand Gents Boots and Shoes ISO I union muv WM BAILEY rim Runts Shoos and Rubbers Custom Work made to order SurUi Main St Oberlin P R TOBIN Hadji and Harness Maker and Dealer in Triikj Valises oarput IV Soain Mam street Oberlin iro liorse See advertisement of the big J AS K tlLEV Harnesses Saildles Trunks CarpetBagsRub b e rClotliiugHullaio J I UVlKlill Meat Market Fresh and Salt Muats Fish Src Cash for Hides and Pelts Main Street Oberlin ISAAC PENFIELD wuonl Made and Repaired andBlacksinilhrig to ordercor Main and Water sis Oberlin U II PAVEL seiMii Keener Has constantly T 1 tt rsnaand Carriages All orders 7 n rMniTttlv attended to O mc Bunding Main Street Oberlin Liver and Boarding Stable A Nol Hore and P tn letEast Cnlloge St Oberlin e BEDORTHA Maker nnd dealer iu Furniture Readymade Coffins c South vlain treet ononni H EVANS BROTHER Genera Undertakers and Cabiuet Makersand Dealers In Furniture Oberlin WATER MAN PEEK Mniinufacturcrs of Doors Sash Blinds and Work and Builders Oberlin Pinuns and Shinirlo Mill 4awing donolo or or Siuth Main i iiixirnn oiioitt Book Bindor over Ells Rore Collefre Street briin All kinds of Biuuine done well and Ob cbeap A Voluntary SY E W EMERSON In an age of fops and toys Wanting wisdom void of right Who shall nerve heroic boys To hazard all in Freedoms fight Break sharply off tbeir jolly games Foraake their comraoes guy And quit proud homes and youthful dames For famine toil and fray Yet on I he nimble air benign Speed nimbler messages That waft the breath of grace divine To hearts io sloth and ease So nigh is grandeur to our dust So near is God to man When duty whispers low 77wu must The youth replies I can Before the Rain We knew it would rain for all the morn A spirit on slender ropes of mist Was lowering its golden buckets down Into the rapory amethyst Of marshes and swamps and dismal feus Scooping the dew that lay in the flowers Dipping the jewels out of the sea To sprinkle them oter the land in showers We knew it would rain for the poplars bhowed The white of their leaves the amber grain Shrunk in the wind and the lightning now Is tangled in tremulous skeins of rain T B Atdrich The Last Appeal BY H JiC KIMBALL The room is swept nnd garnished for thy sake The table spread with Loves mostliberal cheer The fire is blazing brightly on the hearth faun lingers yet to give the welcome here When will thou come Daily I weave the airy web of hope r rail as the spider swrought with beads of dew That like Penelopes each night undone ach morn in patience 1 begin anew When wilt thou come Not yet Tomorrow Faith will take her flight The fire die out the banquet disappear Forever will these fingers drop the web And only desolttion wait thee here O come today Some Facts about the Ministry The following sentences in a letter addressed by Dr J G Holland to a mechanic who was in the habit ot absenting himself from public church services are worth pondering One great reason why you should go to church on Sabbath is that you need intellectualnourishment and stimulous which you can only get there I suppose that you do not often consider the fact that the greatest amount of genuine think ing in the world is done Dy preacn ers I suppose you may never have reflected that amidst all this din of business and clashing of variousinterests in the midst of the clamors and horrors of war the universal pursuit of amusements and thevanities and inanities of fashion and the indulgence of multitudinous vices there is a class of selfdenying men of the best education and the best talents and habits who in theirjuiet rooms are thinking and writing upon the noblest themes which can engage any mind Among these men may be found the finest minds which the age knows the most splendid specimens of intellectual power that the world contains The bright consumate flower of our American collegesystem is the American ministry imong these men are many who are slow stupid if you insist on it but there is not oue in one thousand of them who does not know more than you You can learn something of them all while some possess more brains and more availableintellectual power than you and all your rela tions combined i ten you mat n you suppose the American pulpit to be contemptible you are very much mistaken You have staid away from it teu years During all these ten years 1 have attended its weekly ministrations and I have a better right to speak of it than you have because 1 know more ubout it 1 toll you that I have received during ten years more intellectualnourishment and stimulus from the pulpit than from all other sourcescombined yet my every day pursuits are literary while yours are not Censure It is folly for aneminent man to think of escapingcensure and a weakness to be effected with it All the illustrious persons of antiquity and indeed of every acre in the world have passed through this fierv persecution rpi dPpnc against re lnere IS no QCiense aaiurib it of concomitant to greatness as sat ires and invectives were an essentia part of a Roman triumph Addison The Canada Thistle A troublesome plant is theCanada Thistle Cirsium arvense which is perhaps the worst weed with which the farmer has to contend It dif fers from the common thistle in be ing a perennial besides its strong roots it throws out into the soilnumerous strong rootstocks or under ground branches and multiplies very much in the way described tor the couchgrass in the last numberHunts mug plough or cultivator tnrough a patch of it instead of destroying it only breaks up these rootstocks and they become many separate plants This plant has two separate modes ot propagation ihe one is by its seeds which are readily borne by the wind from place to place and the other is by its underground stems which from a partial warfare against them only flourish andmultiply When one Canada thistle ap pears upon the tarm the war must begin It is modest in its hrst ap pearance presenting but a small tuft of prickly leaves often hidden by the grass but it must be extermina ted at once If let alone the root stock extends itself for a long dis tance in all directions and branches are thrown up to the surface These are apparently winterkilled but the returning summer shows that this is ot the case they are only killed down to the ground and as soon as favorable weather comes theirprickly stems arise from the subterranean buds and stand up in bristly defiance to the cultivator Wherever a Ca nadian thistle appears cut it down We have but little belief in specific applications to weeds but we have known these and other thistles to be destroyed by cutting as soon as they appeared and applying salt to the portion remaining in the ground Whether the first year s attempt at exterminating this pest is successful or not it is a duty that each farmer owes not only to himself but to his neighbors to prevent dissemination let no plant upon the premises flow er much less perfect its seeds Pa tience and frequent cutting as last as it appears above the surface will in time destroy it The legislature ot Michigan has recently passed a law requiringevery person to cut from his land and the adjoining highways the Canada thistles as often as may be necessary to prevent them from going to seed under a penalty ot ten dollars tor neglect In case the owners of the land should fail to cut the thistles after proper notice the overseers and commissioners ot highways ot the towns are empowered to destroy them and add the expense of doing so to the tax levy If a similar law could be carried out in every state we should hear but little of the Canada thistle American Agriculturist The Tyranny of Children We believe in children that is we believy that they are very impor tant members ot societv because sometime in the future they are to be men and women and will have to manage the world if it is managed at all But we do not believe in being tyrannized over by children and are not willing to submit to it witnout entering a protest If we have got to be ruled with a rod of iron we want to have that rod held by strong er hands than ours and then the world will applaud our heroism if we venture upon resistance Butletany one intimate to his most intimate friend that said friends child is at times a trifle troublesome and now and then a little exacting andunreasonable in its orders and demands and the indignant parent thinks him au unnatural monster who never tasted the milk of human kindness and consequently is a fit associate for only barbarians and cannibals But be this as it may it is a solemn and painful fact to many of us that children arc great tyrants and we believe that a great part of thistyranny could be avoided if parents would use a little thought and rely more upon the dictates of judgment and common sense than upon the impulses of exuberant feeling But when a parent helps the child totyrannize over everybody with whom it comes in contact and teaches it in fact so to do it is natural that by andDy tne cuua wm love tne exer cise of power so well as to domineer over those of his own household as well as the outside world The fault primarily is with the parent and there the remedy mustcommence A good many parents seem tosuppose that of all the descendants of Adam the one that nestles in their inns is by all means the fairest wi sest and best With that opinion we will not quarrel so far as they are concerned but they must not sup pose that everybody will agree with them Let a person visit a hundred homes each of which rejoices in an mfant and in ninetynine of them he will no sooner have settled into i comfortable chair than one of the ond parents will present before him x bundle of dry goods from one end of which he will hear vigorous inar dculate sounds Said bundle is held up triumphantly before the caller and while the miniature face iswrinkled and distorted on account of real or imaginary pains and while the eyes are closed and the fists arebusily pummeling what represents a nose he is expected to break cut inrapturous exclamations as to the beauty of the child tell which of itsancestors it resembles point out theexpressiveness of its various features give it his watch and pocket knife as playthings and after a half hour of the direst agony declare that such a child never before existed andprobably never will again Let these operations be repeated at everycalling place and a man naturally gets disgusted with children and begins to look at them as necessary evils and nothing more If parents would just take the trouble to think that save to parental eyes all infants look alike and that their callers would prefer some other relaxation andentertainment than hearing children cry or being told their mostremarkable points they would relieve outsiders of a great deal of serious trouble and make the world much pleasanter for those who have had no personal experience with juvenile humanity Moreover when children get out of swaddling clothes it is not really necessary that they shoud rule the world They are no better for seeing and tormenting everyvisitor they are no more amiable for smashing all the mirrors and tearing up all the books that the houseaffords Of course they wanteverything they see and they are not to blame for exercising a feeling which is innate and cannot be helped And yet the parent will deny the child no gratification however unreasonable it may be however injurious to the child or however inconvenient to a whole family visitors included If discipline be so fine a thing pray do not deny your children some of its benefits if it is right and best that men should hardly ever enjoy what they most desire then why letyourselves and your friends be tyrannized over for the gratification of an un reasonable whim Children require firm and careful training and it is a mistakenKindness that allows them to lord it over everybody with whom they come in contact They enjoy it doubtless for the time but they pay a severe penalty for the gratification after wards when they find that they cannot control themselves because they have never been controlled that they have no selfdenial be cause nothing has ever been denied them that they canBOt exercise rea son because in childhood they were not treated reasonably tchildren be kept in the nursery until their swaddling clothes be removed let them be taught as soon asinstinct develops into reason that the world revolves upon its axis for oth ers tuan tliemseives let mom ue taught that personal comfort is as dear to others as to themselves let them be taught to obey all parental commands with an unquestioning faith let them learn to respect age and merit wherever they meet it let them be taught that life is a reality and not a playground that they cannot obtain all they wish for but must do without many a coveted blessing let this be clone and the world will be pleasanter for us all and the helplessness of childhood will always be assisted the sorrows sympathized with and the virtuesappreciated Springfield Republican A Brave Boy When I was a boy I lived among the Green Mountains of Vermont in winter making snow forts and sliding down the steep hills and in summer and autumn wandering over jthe mountains after flowers or nuts or catching the beautiful trout from the brooks But my brother in Wisconsin wrote for me to come to him and I went Our house was on what was then called BaxtersPrairie The prairie was covered with flowers and the many clear lakes around abounded in fish and ducks but our principal food was hoe cake and salt pork One of our neighbors had had no meat for some time and getting out of powder they had no game So one day they sent up their oldest sod a boy about ten years old for a piece ot pork As he was carrying it homewards and going through a piece of woods by Silver Lake he heard a rustling of the leaves in a thicket by the roadside He stopped and listened all was still Again he pushed forward again the leaves rustled behind him and he thought he heard a stealthy step Again he stopped everything was still except the gentle dash of the waves upon the pebbly beach and the rapid beating of his own heart He dreaded to go forward and he dared not stay for he saw Dight was approaching when the woods always echoed with the sound of thehungry wolf and the savage bear and the stealthy catamount came out from their dens So picking up a club he again started homeward Again came the stealthy step behind him nearer and neare until he saw a gaunt and savage wolf creeping after him and as he hurried on still clinging to his meat the wolf was coming nearer and nearer and and he might at any moment spring upon him Still the boy though he trembled in every limb did not lose hispresence of mind He Temenbered haying heard his father say that if any one faced a wild animal and looked it square in the eye it would uot dare to attack him He turned round faced the hungry wolf and commenced walking backwardstoward his home still a long mile and a half away As the woods grew darker the wolf tame nearer show ing his white teeth with the hair bristling upon his back The courageous boy knew that if he gave up his piece ot pork he was safe and could run home unmolested but he knew that there were hungry ones at home awaiting his return So backwards he went step by step As the wolf came near he hit him sauare upon his head with a stone when with an angry yelp the wolf sprang into the thicket and set up ft long and dismal howl J he boylistened to hear if there were anyanswering howls ad hearing none took courage but soon the savage beast maddened with hunger came at him asrain With his club he gave him a welldirected blow be tween the eyes which sent him howl insr back again into the thicket Attin and again was the contest renewed Many times did thesavage animal make a spring at the lad and many times did the brave boy beat him off until at last he came near the los cabin of his parents when the disappointed wolf with a long and wailing sound dashed away into the woods TrembKng with ex citement and wet with perspiration the boy dropped the meat upon the floor crying Mother Ive got it and fellexhausted at his mothers feet Microscopic Writing At the London internationalexhibition 1862 a machine for theelocution of microscopic writing was exhibited by a Mr Peters which has enabled the Lord s Prayer to be written iD the 3E6T00Uh of a square inch a space like a minute dot The English Bible contains 3566 480 letters the Lords Prayer endin with deliver us from evil 223 letters so that the Bible is15992 times longer than the prayer T and if we employ round numbers we may say it could be written in160i0 times the space occupied by the prayer or in less than thetwentysecond part of a square inch In other words the whole Bible might be written twenrytwo times in one square inch This wonderfully Bii ln wiirinrr in fOonrlv lprviVilfl wllpn nlnrwl nndora srood microscode In using the machine the operator writes with a pencil attatched to one end of a long leer whatever marks he makes on a piece of paper areinfinitcssimally reduced in corresponding motions by which a glass plate is moved over a minute diamond point By means of a geometric chuck beautiful geometric designs may be engraved on a similar scale ofminuteness Wells b Annual Odds and Ends If negroes are as good as white people why did the Creator not make them alike Ohio Crisis We dont think that negroes are as good as white people but if women are as good as men why didnt theCreator make them alike f Louisville Journal There are but two ways which lead to great aims and achievements energy and perseverance Ener j i is a rare gut ic provoKesopposition hatred and reaction But perseverance lies within the reach of everv one its nower increases with its progress and it is but rarely that it misses its aim EiETHLT AND IIATXITLT INTEREST Ben Adam had a golden coin one day Which he put out to interest with a Jew Year after year awaiting him it lay u tun the doubled com two pieces grew And these two four bo on till people said How rich Ben Adam is and bowed the servile head Ben Selim had a golden coin that day Which to a stranger asking alma lis gave Who went rejoicing n his unknown way Ben Selim died too poor to own a grave But when hie aoul reached heavea angels with pride Showed him the wealth to which his coin had in ultiplied When James T Brady the celebrated lawyer of New York first opened a lawyers office he took a basement room which had previously been occupied by a cobbler He was somewhat annoyed by theprevious occupants callers and irritated by the fact that he had few of his own One day an Irishman entered The coblers gone I see he said I should think he had tartlyresponded Brady u And what do ye sell he asked looking at thesolitary table and a few law books 1 Blockheads responded Brady Be gorra said the Irishman ye must be doing a mighty finebusiness ye haint got but one left The following extract from an oration by Demosthenes is in circu lation as applicable tc certain con temporary contractorsBehold the despicable creatures raised all at once from dirt to opulence from the lowest obscurity to the high est honors Have not some of these upstarts built private houses and seats vying with the most gumptious of our public palaces And how have their fortunes and their power increased but as the commonwealth has been ruined and impoverished What is the difference between a Roman Catholic Archbishop and a donkey asked a young officerdining with Archbishop Whately Hereplied because one wears his cross before and the other behind And what asked Whately is the difference betweeu an aiddecamp and a donkey I cannot tell said the officer Neitner can I said the Archbishop A captain of a vessel loading coals went into a merchantscounting house and requested the loan of a rake The merchant lookingtowards his clerks replied I have a number of them but none Ibelieve wish to be hauled over the coals Is that the tune the old cow died of asked an Englishman nettled at the industry with which a New Englander whistled Yankee Doodle No beef replied Jonathan that ares the tune the old Bull died of Overwork The majority of the fatal diseases arising iroin overwork are nowdiscovered Give a human beiDgoverwork and deficient food and he is the victim of diarrhoea anddysentery Give him overwork and bid air and bad food and he is thevictim of typhus Give him overwork and bad air and he is the victim of consumption Give him overmental work with whatever air andwhatever food and he is the victim of brain disease and of one or other of its sequences iusanitv paralvsis i j i diabetes premature death in anv case death by suicide notunfrequently Give him overwork purelyphysical with air with food and thelaboring heart trying to keep upagainst its weariness succumbs and so the overworked smith boatman or woodheaver falls suddenly not more honored than the prizefighter of today or the fleet slave andgladiator of a past and more barbarous age Dr Richard iiua iproach out obscurity ub nuu